Motivic foundation: A_C, the C-motivic Steenrod algebra engine over F₂[τ] - #266
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a public C-motivic Milnor algebra with basis operations, coproducts, antipodes, closed-form products, lazy indexed caching, extensive tests, and Criterion benchmarks. It also extracts and tests a reusable disjoint-bit successor function for the classical Milnor algebra. ChangesC-motivic algebra
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| //! The C-motivic (over $\mathbb{C}$, prime 2) Steenrod algebra and its mod-$\tau$ | ||
| //! reduction. |
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| //! The C-motivic (over $\mathbb{C}$, prime 2) Steenrod algebra and its mod-$\tau$ | |
| //! reduction. | |
| //! The C-motivic prime 2 Steenrod algebra and its mod-$\tau$ reduction. |
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| /// The unit $\tau^0 = 1$. |
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| impl Tau { | ||
| /// The unit $\tau^0 = 1$. | ||
| pub const ONE: Self = Self(Some(0)); | ||
| /// The zero coefficient. |
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| /// The zero coefficient. | ||
| pub const ZERO: Self = Self(None); | ||
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| /// The zero coefficient (method form, for symmetry with [`Tau::one`]). |
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| /// The $n$-th power $(\tau^k)^n = \tau^{kn}$, with the convention $x^0 = 1$. | ||
| pub fn pow(self, n: u32) -> Self { | ||
| if n == 0 { | ||
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This makes 0^0 = 1. If we just did Self(self.0.map(|k| k * n)) then the only difference is that 0^0 = 0. Do we care?
| if r.first().copied().unwrap_or(0) > 0 { | ||
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| let get = |seq: &[u32], i: usize| seq.get(i).copied().unwrap_or(0) as i32; |
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It doesn't close over anything so it could be extracted to a top level function. But maybe it's better as a local?
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| num += (get(s, i) - get(r, i)) << i; | ||
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| let floor = num.div_euclid(1i32 << n); |
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Isn't there a fast way to divide by a power of 2? Euclidean division is normally about as slow as it gets for basic arithmetic. Though probably div_euclid() has a fast path for this anyways.
| fn vec_add(a: &[u32], b: &[u32]) -> Vec<u32> { | ||
| let n = a.len().max(b.len()); | ||
| let mut r: Vec<u32> = (0..n) | ||
| .map(|i| a.get(i).copied().unwrap_or(0) + b.get(i).copied().unwrap_or(0)) |
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Now we have the get function again. I think it wants to be a top level function.
| /// Add `coeff * key` into a sparse $\mathbb{F}_2[\tau]$-linear combination `acc`, dropping the | ||
| /// entry if it cancels to zero. Used for both [`DualElement`] and [`TensorElement`]; the | ||
| /// coefficient bookkeeping is entirely [`Tau`] arithmetic. | ||
| fn add_term<K: Ord>(acc: &mut BTreeMap<K, Tau>, key: K, coeff: Tau) { |
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BTreeMap here might not be great for performance.
| /// exponents: the exterior parts form $S = E_1 + E_2$ (entries in $\{0,1,2\}$), which is | ||
| /// rewritten into the square-free basis via [`rewrite_tau`] ($\tau_i^2 = \tau\xi_{i+1}$), and | ||
| /// the resulting $\xi$ exponents are added to $R_1 + R_2$. | ||
| fn mul_monomials(m1: &(u32, Vec<u32>), m2: &(u32, Vec<u32>), coeff: Tau, acc: &mut DualElement) { |
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Could we switch from (u32, Vec<u32>) to a struct with named fields? Would be clearer what they mean.
| /// so equality is canonical, and coefficient arithmetic is exactly [`Tau`]'s arithmetic — `mul` | ||
| /// adds valuations, `add` cancels equal powers mod 2 (unequal powers would be inhomogeneous and | ||
| /// cannot arise). | ||
| pub type DualElement = BTreeMap<(u32, Vec<u32>), Tau>; |
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This should be consistent with how we handle linear combinations of milnor basis elements in the normal steenrod algebra. This BTreeMap is probably really bad for performance.
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Foundation layer for computing the C-motivic Adams E₂ by deformation: the coefficient ring and the product engine, with no wiring into the resolution engine yet — the mod-τ reduction that the engine resolves comes in a follow-up. - `tau`: F₂[τ] as a small homogeneous scalar (`Tau`). Every structure constant in the motivic world is a single power of τ, so a coefficient is a one-integer valuation rather than a polynomial. - `milnor`: `MotivicMilnorAlgebra` = A_C as a free F₂[τ]-module on the Milnor basis Q(E)P(R). The product is computed two ways — a duality oracle (dualize the coproduct ψ) and the closed-form Kong–Lin Theorem 5.1 (arXiv:2411.12890, ρ = 0) — and the fast path is validated exhaustively against the oracle. It is intentionally not an `Algebra`: that trait is over F_p, and this is the F₂[τ] engine the deformation lift builds on. Built against the bit-packed classical Milnor basis (SpectralSequences#280), so the two classical cross-check tests share one `classical_mul` helper plus the paper/`PPart` index conversions rather than each carrying its own, and `Monomial` is a named type rather than `(u32, Vec<u32>)` spelled out 19 times. Tests: rewrite_tau identities, product associativity, weight-homogeneity, and closed-form-vs-duality agreement over a range. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three groups, from the kernel outwards: a single `multiply_closed`, a whole
`fill_block` (the batch unit a resolution asks for, with throughput in structure
constants), and `enum_basis`.
The GPU handoff note calls `multiply_closed` the arithmetic bottleneck of the
deformation pipeline, and the review raises the cost of the `BTreeMap` behind
`DualElement`; neither had a number attached. This is the measurement both need,
and it replaces the ad-hoc `PRODUCT_NANOS` counter that used to stand in for it.
Baseline on this machine (mean):
motivic_product/xi_small 1.40 µs
motivic_product/xi_medium 11.44 µs
motivic_product/xi_large 417.44 µs
motivic_product/q_small 0.68 µs
motivic_product/q_medium 2.40 µs
motivic_product/q_large 15.41 µs
motivic_block/12 348.69 µs
motivic_block/16 2.09 ms
motivic_block/20 10.36 ms
motivic_basis/20 2.04 µs
motivic_basis/30 7.13 µs
motivic_basis/40 14.87 µs
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX
Four steps on one arc, two of them answering review comments.
Named fields first — "Could we switch from `(u32, Vec<u32>)` to a struct with named fields?
Would be clearer what they mean." `Monomial { q_part, p_part }`, field names matching
`MilnorBasisElement`'s. The derived `Ord` is lexicographic in that field order, exactly the
tuple ordering the per-degree bases were already sorted and binary-searched by, so indexing is
unchanged.
Then the xi exponents become the classical bit-packed `PPart`, making `Monomial` `Copy` and 12
bytes with no heap. Kong–Lin index from ξ₀ = 1, so their `R[0]` is identically zero for every
monomial and carries no information; dropping it is what lets the motivic exponent sequence
*be* a classical one, with `from_paper`/`paper_p_part` converting at the two boundaries where
the paper's indexing is the natural one.
Then linear combinations, twice reviewed — "this `BTreeMap` is probably really bad for
performance" and "should be consistent with how we handle linear combinations of milnor basis
elements in the normal steenrod algebra". `SparseSum<K>` is a `Vec<(K, Tau)>` kept sorted by
key, so equality stays canonical and lookup stays logarithmic. Worth recording that its
measured effect was a wash — not what the review, or I, expected.
Finally the allocation traffic, from a pprof profile of `motivic_block/20` rather than a guess:
a quarter of it was walking `Vec<Vec<u32>>`. The candidate column lists become `Columns` — every
column end to end in one allocation with an offset table, iterated as `&[u32]` — and `NB` drops
from 64 to 32.
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`PPartMultiplier::next_val` steps to the next entry value that keeps the Milnor coefficient non-zero, rather than testing candidates and discarding them. At p = 2 (and not mod 4) that is one branch-free expression, and it is reusable: the motivic closed-form product needs the same predicate on its anti-diagonals, where it is currently a filter over precomputed candidates. Testing it against brute force turned up a precondition the original code satisfied implicitly and never stated: `k` must already be disjoint from `sum`. The increment may carry through `k`'s own bits but not through `sum`'s, so an overlapping `k` can come back *smaller* -- `next_disjoint(2, 2)` is 1, not 4. Every caller walks a matrix whose anti-diagonal entries are pairwise disjoint, so it holds, but it is now documented and `debug_assert`ed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX
`Tau::pow` and `Tau::shift` had no callers outside their own test, so the question of whether `0^0` should be `1` goes away with them. The `get` closure in `c_coeff` captured nothing and becomes a free function, and its Euclidean division by a power of two becomes the arithmetic shift it compiles to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Everything the engine computes is bidegree-homogeneous and tau has bidegree (0, -1), so the topological degree is additive and the whole tau power lands in the weight: the coefficient of a term z in a product a*b can only be tau^(w_z - w_a - w_b). Nothing was free to store. So a `SparseSum` becomes a mod-2 set of keys and `product_indexed` returns bare indices. A caller that wants a coefficient asks `Grading::tau_exponent` for it. `Grading` names which of the two dual weight conventions is in play — A_C weights a basis element by the negative of the monomial it pairs with — because the exponent formula is the same on both sides once each is asked for its own weight, and a bare sign is not. `rewrite_tau` still counts the exponent it always did; `mul_monomials` now debug-asserts that it agrees with what the weights dictate, which is the invariant that licenses not keeping it. This is a wash for speed: `motivic_basis`, which the change cannot touch, moved 4% on its own, and every other group moved less than that. The point is the smaller representation — a cached structure constant halves from 16 bytes to 8 — and one less thing to thread through the resolution. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A_C and A_** are indexed by the same (E, R) data, so `Monomial` could not say which of the two it meant — and `DualElement` was the return type of both `dual_mul`, where it is an element of the dual algebra, and `multiply`, where it is not. The `Grading` enum existed only to supply, by hand and at every call, the fact that the type had lost. `Dual<Monomial>` carries it instead. `Bigraded::bidegree` reports each type's own weight, and a single `tau_exponent` reads whichever the values it is given belong to, so the convention is no longer something a caller chooses — it follows from what they are holding. Mixing the two in one call is a type error; reinterpreting a value from one side as the other now requires writing `Dual(..)` or `.0`, which is where such a conversion should be visible. The `debug_assert` on the exponent stays as the backstop for that deliberate case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 76-79: Update the benchmark around MotivicMilnorAlgebra::new to
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iter_batched passes ownership of MotivicMilnorAlgebra to the timed closure. The populated cache is then dropped with the algebra. Use iter_batched_ref with BatchSize::PerIteration.
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In `@ext/crates/algebra/benches/motivic.rs` around lines 76 - 79, Update the
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Docs first: three of them still described the F_2[tau] coefficient that no longer exists, and both module headers had grown into essays that restated each other and the items below them. CLAUDE.md wants one line and the explanation on the item, so the algebra presentation moved to `Monomial`, the duality argument to `multiply` (which also stops calling the closed form future work, since it has been implemented for a while), and the weight convention to `Dual`. `SparseSum::len` and `iter` had no callers — `iter` was a second spelling of the `IntoIterator` impl next to it. `xi_gen(i)` was `xi_pow_elt(i, 1)` written out, `new()` was the derived `Default` written out, and `antipode` iterated set bits by hand where the rest of the file uses `BitflagIterator`. `on_y` bounded a loop over an `[u32; NB]` by `u32::BITS`, which only works because the two constants happen to be equal; `nb_covers_antidiagonals` now pins the bound `NB` actually needs, and its doc names the constants rather than quoting a number that would go stale. `basis_element_from_string` had no test — its round trip lives in the follow-up that consumes it, so it would have shipped unexercised. Brought down. `product_indexed_with` likewise comes from the follow-up, where copying the index list per cache hit showed up as real cost. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two changes to the same hot path, each measured on its own.
`enum_y` is the innermost loop — a flamegraph puts essentially all leaf time under it — and its
three loops indexed `acc.or[i + j]` and `acc.sum[i + j]` by computed index. The anti-diagonal
offset defeats bounds-check elision, so every iteration paid for checks and would not
vectorise. Iterating the slices instead, through a paired `Acc::place`/`unplace` that also
absorbs the apply/undo bodies written out four times.
The block registry then took a write lock on `RwLock<FxHashMap<(i32, i32), _>>` for every new
degree pair, which is the one thing its own doc claimed the design avoids. `once` has this
container already: `MultiIndexed<2, V>` is a wait-free sparse map from integer coordinates, and
`try_insert` gives the racing-insert loser its value back to drop. Since `get` borrows from
`&self`, the `Arc` around each block goes too — `block` returns `&ProductBlock`.
motivic_block/12 285 µs -> 247 -> 230 µs -18.7%
motivic_block/16 1.79 ms -> 1.57 -> 1.52 ms -15.2%
motivic_block/20 8.98 ms -> 7.64 -> 7.16 ms -20.3%
motivic_product/xi/large 399 µs -> 308 µs -22.6%
motivic_product/q/large 14.2 µs -> 11.4 µs -20.4%
`motivic_basis`, which neither change can touch, moved -1% to +0.5% and is the control.
The same zip rewrite in `enum_x` measures neutral — X enumeration is not the bottleneck — so it
is left indexed rather than changed for symmetry.
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…t at the leaf
`on_y` rejected a complete Y matrix when Σ(E₁) + 2Σ(S′) ≠ Σ(S(Y)). That target depends only on
X, so it is known before the Y walk starts — and measuring the rejection showed the walk was
building 1,361,550 complete Y matrices to accept 6, with 1,304,502 of them (96%) dying on that
one scalar equation.
Each candidate column now carries its unweighted sum, so `ClosedY` can hold the suffix bounds
on what the remaining columns can still contribute and stop a branch as soon as the target is
out of reach. On the a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] product:
Y matrices reaching on_y 1,361,550 -> 57,048 (24x fewer)
rejected by the equation 1,304,502 -> 0 (subsumed by the bound)
which is a 3.2x wall-clock win on the degree-138 product (10.96s -> 3.46s), and on the bench:
motivic_product/xi/large -40%
motivic_product/q/large -28%
motivic_block/20 7.38 ms -> 5.60 ms
The small cases regress 12-19%: the bounds cost a pass over the candidate lists per X matrix,
which a product with a handful of columns cannot amortise. Left alone, since the shapes that
regress are microseconds and the ones that gain are the ones that make large computations
infeasible. Note the `motivic_basis` control also drifted +12% across this measurement, so
treat anything under that as noise; the large-case wins are well clear of it.
The leaf test stays as the statement of the condition, now unreachable.
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…ible X earlier
Two more prunes of the same kind as the degree-equation bound, found by counting what the walk
rejects rather than by guessing.
`on_y` rejected a complete `Y` when `E₂ + T(Y)` was not square-free. Anti-diagonal sums only
grow, so a diagonal that has already overflowed its cap never recovers — testing it as each
column is placed cuts the subtree instead of rediscovering the failure at every leaf below it.
On a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] the leaves reaching `on_y` fall from 57,048 to 12, of which 6 are
kept; `c_coeff`, which had been rejecting 88% of survivors, is left rejecting 6.
`on_x` then built the whole `Y` candidate list before discovering the degree equation was out of
reach. The window is decidable from the column targets alone — a column of weighted sum `w` has
plain sum between `w.count_ones()` and `w` — so that test moves ahead of the candidate lists.
degree 98 product 41.3 ms -> 13.0 ms
degree 138 product 3.46 s -> 646 ms
motivic_block/20 5.60 ms -> 3.14 ms
Two things I tried that measured worse and are not here: carrying the same feasibility bound
incrementally through the `X` walk (the popcount floor is too loose to fire — it cut 1.4% of X
for a 11% slowdown), and reusing the `Y` candidate vector and accumulator across `X` matrices
(threading the scratch costs more than the small `Vec` it saves).
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…e full one
The deformation pipeline resolves over `A_C/τ`, not `A_C` — the follow-up's `CTauAlgebra` asks
for the full `F_2[τ]` product and keeps the terms of τ-valuation 0. That pays for the whole
enumeration to discard nearly all of it.
Mod τ the constraint is much tighter, and it is a constraint on the *walk*, not the output: a
term carries `τ^{Σ(S′)}`, so keeping only `τ⁰` forces `S′ = 0`, i.e. `S(X) = R₁` exactly rather
than `≤`. That is the classical admissible-matrix condition. `multiply_closed_mod_tau` enforces
it during the `X` walk, cutting a branch as soon as the remaining columns cannot fill a row.
a=[8,4,2,1]·[4,2,1,1] 12.6 ms -> 56.7 µs 222x
a=[16,8,2,1]·[8,4,2,1] 676 ms -> 172 µs 3922x
which puts the mod-τ product about 115x the classical Milnor product on the same inputs, rather
than the ~500,000x the full `A_C` product costs.
`test_mod_tau_matches_the_filtered_product` pins the equivalence to filtering `multiply_closed`
by `tau_exponent == 0`, which is the whole licence for constraining the walk up front.
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The module doc was six lines restating what `multiply_closed` and `Monomial` already say; per CLAUDE.md it is one line and the facts move to the items. The conjugate generators are a fact about `Monomial`, and the Kong–Lin citation belongs with the theorem it implements. Also drop a test comment that restated its own degree bounds, so the two cannot drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX
`basis_element_from_string` existed so `.json` module descriptors could be written over the algebra, which is a concern of the layer above; nothing here called it, as its own test admitted. `MilnorAlgebra` already parses the same shape, so the mod-tau layer can take it from there rather than from a second parser kept alive by a round-trip test. `basis_element_to_string` took `(degree, idx)` to match a trait this type deliberately does not implement. It becomes `Display` on `Dual<Monomial>`, which is the type that actually has something to print. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX
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In `@ext/crates/algebra/src/algebra/motivic/milnor.rs`:
- Around line 883-892: Restore the anti-diagonal bound assertion in both
Acc::place and Acc::unplace, checking that each candidate column length plus j
is less than or equal to NB before the anti-diagonal arrays are written.
Preserve the existing zip-based updates while ensuring invariant violations fail
instead of being silently truncated.
- Around line 1181-1193: Build row_slack only when self.mod_tau is enabled,
moving the existing table construction into a reusable row_slack_table helper
near multiply_closed_inner and invoking it from the mod-τ pruning path in
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Restore the anti-diagonal bound assertion in place and unplace.
enum_x keeps debug_assert!(cand.len() + j <= NB) before it writes the anti-diagonal arrays. The Y walk now writes through Acc::place, which has no such check. If a column is longer than NB - j, the zip chain truncates silently and the product loses entries instead of failing. Reachable column lengths stay inside NB today (nb_covers_antidiagonals pins the bound), so this is protection for the invariant, not a live defect.
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fn place(&mut self, cand: &[u32], j: usize) {
+ debug_assert!(cand.len() + j <= NB, "anti-diagonal index out of range");
for ((&v, r), (o, sm)) in cand
.iter()
.zip(&mut self.rows)
.zip(self.or[j..].iter_mut().zip(&mut self.sum[j..])) fn unplace(&mut self, cand: &[u32], j: usize) {
+ debug_assert!(cand.len() + j <= NB, "anti-diagonal index out of range");
for ((&v, r), (o, sm)) in cand
.iter()
.zip(&mut self.rows)
.zip(self.or[j..].iter_mut().zip(&mut self.sum[j..]))Also applies to: 896-905
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In `@ext/crates/algebra/src/algebra/motivic/milnor.rs` around lines 883 - 892,
Restore the anti-diagonal bound assertion in both Acc::place and Acc::unplace,
checking that each candidate column length plus j is less than or equal to NB
before the anti-diagonal arrays are written. Preserve the existing zip-based
updates while ensuring invariant violations fail instead of being silently
truncated.
… mod-tau
compute_basis read the basis length outside the write lock and then pushed,
so two threads reaching an uncached degree together (fill_block runs the
block walk in parallel) could both fill the same degrees. The vec ends up
longer than it should be and basis[t] stops holding degree t, which then
feeds wrong structure constants into every cached product above it.
OnceVec::extend re-reads the length under the lock, which is what the
classical algebra already uses. The added test fails against the previous
code ("degree 11 misaligned after concurrent first use") and passes now.
The negative-degree guard keeps the old no-op behaviour, since the loop
bound tolerated a negative degree but `degree as usize` would not.
Separately, row_slack is read only by the mod-tau prune, so the general
product was allocating and filling (l + 1) * NB entries on every call and
never reading them. It moves into row_slack_table, built only for that walk.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…₂[τ] (#266) * motivic: A_C, the C-motivic Steenrod algebra engine over F₂[τ] Foundation layer for computing the C-motivic Adams E₂ by deformation: the coefficient ring and the product engine, with no wiring into the resolution engine yet — the mod-τ reduction that the engine resolves comes in a follow-up. - `tau`: F₂[τ] as a small homogeneous scalar (`Tau`). Every structure constant in the motivic world is a single power of τ, so a coefficient is a one-integer valuation rather than a polynomial. - `milnor`: `MotivicMilnorAlgebra` = A_C as a free F₂[τ]-module on the Milnor basis Q(E)P(R). The product is computed two ways — a duality oracle (dualize the coproduct ψ) and the closed-form Kong–Lin Theorem 5.1 (arXiv:2411.12890, ρ = 0) — and the fast path is validated exhaustively against the oracle. It is intentionally not an `Algebra`: that trait is over F_p, and this is the F₂[τ] engine the deformation lift builds on. Built against the bit-packed classical Milnor basis (#280), so the two classical cross-check tests share one `classical_mul` helper plus the paper/`PPart` index conversions rather than each carrying its own, and `Monomial` is a named type rather than `(u32, Vec<u32>)` spelled out 19 times. Tests: rewrite_tau identities, product associativity, weight-homogeneity, and closed-form-vs-duality agreement over a range. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: add a criterion bench for the C-motivic engine Three groups, from the kernel outwards: a single `multiply_closed`, a whole `fill_block` (the batch unit a resolution asks for, with throughput in structure constants), and `enum_basis`. The GPU handoff note calls `multiply_closed` the arithmetic bottleneck of the deformation pipeline, and the review raises the cost of the `BTreeMap` behind `DualElement`; neither had a number attached. This is the measurement both need, and it replaces the ad-hoc `PRODUCT_NANOS` counter that used to stand in for it. Baseline on this machine (mean): motivic_product/xi_small 1.40 µs motivic_product/xi_medium 11.44 µs motivic_product/xi_large 417.44 µs motivic_product/q_small 0.68 µs motivic_product/q_medium 2.40 µs motivic_product/q_large 15.41 µs motivic_block/12 348.69 µs motivic_block/16 2.09 ms motivic_block/20 10.36 ms motivic_basis/20 2.04 µs motivic_basis/30 7.13 µs motivic_basis/40 14.87 µs Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: rework the monomial and coefficient representation Four steps on one arc, two of them answering review comments. Named fields first — "Could we switch from `(u32, Vec<u32>)` to a struct with named fields? Would be clearer what they mean." `Monomial { q_part, p_part }`, field names matching `MilnorBasisElement`'s. The derived `Ord` is lexicographic in that field order, exactly the tuple ordering the per-degree bases were already sorted and binary-searched by, so indexing is unchanged. Then the xi exponents become the classical bit-packed `PPart`, making `Monomial` `Copy` and 12 bytes with no heap. Kong–Lin index from ξ₀ = 1, so their `R[0]` is identically zero for every monomial and carries no information; dropping it is what lets the motivic exponent sequence *be* a classical one, with `from_paper`/`paper_p_part` converting at the two boundaries where the paper's indexing is the natural one. Then linear combinations, twice reviewed — "this `BTreeMap` is probably really bad for performance" and "should be consistent with how we handle linear combinations of milnor basis elements in the normal steenrod algebra". `SparseSum<K>` is a `Vec<(K, Tau)>` kept sorted by key, so equality stays canonical and lookup stays logarithmic. Worth recording that its measured effect was a wash — not what the review, or I, expected. Finally the allocation traffic, from a pprof profile of `motivic_block/20` rather than a guess: a quarter of it was walking `Vec<Vec<u32>>`. The candidate column lists become `Columns` — every column end to end in one allocation with an offset table, iterated as `&[u32]` — and `NB` drops from 64 to 32. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * algebra: extract next_disjoint from the Milnor multiplier `PPartMultiplier::next_val` steps to the next entry value that keeps the Milnor coefficient non-zero, rather than testing candidates and discarding them. At p = 2 (and not mod 4) that is one branch-free expression, and it is reusable: the motivic closed-form product needs the same predicate on its anti-diagonals, where it is currently a filter over precomputed candidates. Testing it against brute force turned up a precondition the original code satisfied implicitly and never stated: `k` must already be disjoint from `sum`. The increment may carry through `k`'s own bits but not through `sum`'s, so an overlapping `k` can come back *smaller* -- `next_disjoint(2, 2)` is 1, not 4. Every caller walks a matrix whose anti-diagonal entries are pairwise disjoint, so it holds, but it is now documented and `debug_assert`ed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: address the review comments on the tau and coefficient code `Tau::pow` and `Tau::shift` had no callers outside their own test, so the question of whether `0^0` should be `1` goes away with them. The `get` closure in `c_coeff` captured nothing and becomes a free function, and its Euclidean division by a power of two becomes the arithmetic shift it compiles to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: drop the tau coefficient, which the weight already determines Everything the engine computes is bidegree-homogeneous and tau has bidegree (0, -1), so the topological degree is additive and the whole tau power lands in the weight: the coefficient of a term z in a product a*b can only be tau^(w_z - w_a - w_b). Nothing was free to store. So a `SparseSum` becomes a mod-2 set of keys and `product_indexed` returns bare indices. A caller that wants a coefficient asks `Grading::tau_exponent` for it. `Grading` names which of the two dual weight conventions is in play — A_C weights a basis element by the negative of the monomial it pairs with — because the exponent formula is the same on both sides once each is asked for its own weight, and a bare sign is not. `rewrite_tau` still counts the exponent it always did; `mul_monomials` now debug-asserts that it agrees with what the weights dictate, which is the invariant that licenses not keeping it. This is a wash for speed: `motivic_basis`, which the change cannot touch, moved 4% on its own, and every other group moved less than that. The point is the smaller representation — a cached structure constant halves from 16 bytes to 8 — and one less thing to thread through the resolution. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: give the A_C reading of a monomial its own type A_C and A_** are indexed by the same (E, R) data, so `Monomial` could not say which of the two it meant — and `DualElement` was the return type of both `dual_mul`, where it is an element of the dual algebra, and `multiply`, where it is not. The `Grading` enum existed only to supply, by hand and at every call, the fact that the type had lost. `Dual<Monomial>` carries it instead. `Bigraded::bidegree` reports each type's own weight, and a single `tau_exponent` reads whichever the values it is given belong to, so the convention is no longer something a caller chooses — it follows from what they are holding. Mixing the two in one call is a type error; reinterpreting a value from one side as the other now requires writing `Dual(..)` or `.0`, which is where such a conversion should be visible. The `debug_assert` on the exponent stays as the backstop for that deliberate case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: trim the engine after the tau removal Docs first: three of them still described the F_2[tau] coefficient that no longer exists, and both module headers had grown into essays that restated each other and the items below them. CLAUDE.md wants one line and the explanation on the item, so the algebra presentation moved to `Monomial`, the duality argument to `multiply` (which also stops calling the closed form future work, since it has been implemented for a while), and the weight convention to `Dual`. `SparseSum::len` and `iter` had no callers — `iter` was a second spelling of the `IntoIterator` impl next to it. `xi_gen(i)` was `xi_pow_elt(i, 1)` written out, `new()` was the derived `Default` written out, and `antipode` iterated set bits by hand where the rest of the file uses `BitflagIterator`. `on_y` bounded a loop over an `[u32; NB]` by `u32::BITS`, which only works because the two constants happen to be equal; `nb_covers_antidiagonals` now pins the bound `NB` actually needs, and its doc names the constants rather than quoting a number that would go stale. `basis_element_from_string` had no test — its round trip lives in the follow-up that consumes it, so it would have shipped unexercised. Brought down. `product_indexed_with` likewise comes from the follow-up, where copying the index list per cache hit showed up as real cost. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: speed up the closed-form product Two changes to the same hot path, each measured on its own. `enum_y` is the innermost loop — a flamegraph puts essentially all leaf time under it — and its three loops indexed `acc.or[i + j]` and `acc.sum[i + j]` by computed index. The anti-diagonal offset defeats bounds-check elision, so every iteration paid for checks and would not vectorise. Iterating the slices instead, through a paired `Acc::place`/`unplace` that also absorbs the apply/undo bodies written out four times. The block registry then took a write lock on `RwLock<FxHashMap<(i32, i32), _>>` for every new degree pair, which is the one thing its own doc claimed the design avoids. `once` has this container already: `MultiIndexed<2, V>` is a wait-free sparse map from integer coordinates, and `try_insert` gives the racing-insert loser its value back to drop. Since `get` borrows from `&self`, the `Arc` around each block goes too — `block` returns `&ProductBlock`. motivic_block/12 285 µs -> 247 -> 230 µs -18.7% motivic_block/16 1.79 ms -> 1.57 -> 1.52 ms -15.2% motivic_block/20 8.98 ms -> 7.64 -> 7.16 ms -20.3% motivic_product/xi/large 399 µs -> 308 µs -22.6% motivic_product/q/large 14.2 µs -> 11.4 µs -20.4% `motivic_basis`, which neither change can touch, moved -1% to +0.5% and is the control. The same zip rewrite in `enum_x` measures neutral — X enumeration is not the bottleneck — so it is left indexed rather than changed for symmetry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: bound the Y walk by the degree equation instead of testing it at the leaf `on_y` rejected a complete Y matrix when Σ(E₁) + 2Σ(S′) ≠ Σ(S(Y)). That target depends only on X, so it is known before the Y walk starts — and measuring the rejection showed the walk was building 1,361,550 complete Y matrices to accept 6, with 1,304,502 of them (96%) dying on that one scalar equation. Each candidate column now carries its unweighted sum, so `ClosedY` can hold the suffix bounds on what the remaining columns can still contribute and stop a branch as soon as the target is out of reach. On the a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] product: Y matrices reaching on_y 1,361,550 -> 57,048 (24x fewer) rejected by the equation 1,304,502 -> 0 (subsumed by the bound) which is a 3.2x wall-clock win on the degree-138 product (10.96s -> 3.46s), and on the bench: motivic_product/xi/large -40% motivic_product/q/large -28% motivic_block/20 7.38 ms -> 5.60 ms The small cases regress 12-19%: the bounds cost a pass over the candidate lists per X matrix, which a product with a handful of columns cannot amortise. Left alone, since the shapes that regress are microseconds and the ones that gain are the ones that make large computations infeasible. Note the `motivic_basis` control also drifted +12% across this measurement, so treat anything under that as noise; the large-case wins are well clear of it. The leaf test stays as the statement of the condition, now unreachable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: cut the Y walk on the square-free condition, and skip infeasible X earlier Two more prunes of the same kind as the degree-equation bound, found by counting what the walk rejects rather than by guessing. `on_y` rejected a complete `Y` when `E₂ + T(Y)` was not square-free. Anti-diagonal sums only grow, so a diagonal that has already overflowed its cap never recovers — testing it as each column is placed cuts the subtree instead of rediscovering the failure at every leaf below it. On a=[8,4,2,1] b=[4,2,1,1] the leaves reaching `on_y` fall from 57,048 to 12, of which 6 are kept; `c_coeff`, which had been rejecting 88% of survivors, is left rejecting 6. `on_x` then built the whole `Y` candidate list before discovering the degree equation was out of reach. The window is decidable from the column targets alone — a column of weighted sum `w` has plain sum between `w.count_ones()` and `w` — so that test moves ahead of the candidate lists. degree 98 product 41.3 ms -> 13.0 ms degree 138 product 3.46 s -> 646 ms motivic_block/20 5.60 ms -> 3.14 ms Two things I tried that measured worse and are not here: carrying the same feasibility bound incrementally through the `X` walk (the popcount floor is too loose to fire — it cut 1.4% of X for a 11% slowdown), and reusing the `Y` candidate vector and accumulator across `X` matrices (threading the scratch costs more than the small `Vec` it saves). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: compute the mod-tau product directly instead of filtering the full one The deformation pipeline resolves over `A_C/τ`, not `A_C` — the follow-up's `CTauAlgebra` asks for the full `F_2[τ]` product and keeps the terms of τ-valuation 0. That pays for the whole enumeration to discard nearly all of it. Mod τ the constraint is much tighter, and it is a constraint on the *walk*, not the output: a term carries `τ^{Σ(S′)}`, so keeping only `τ⁰` forces `S′ = 0`, i.e. `S(X) = R₁` exactly rather than `≤`. That is the classical admissible-matrix condition. `multiply_closed_mod_tau` enforces it during the `X` walk, cutting a branch as soon as the remaining columns cannot fill a row. a=[8,4,2,1]·[4,2,1,1] 12.6 ms -> 56.7 µs 222x a=[16,8,2,1]·[8,4,2,1] 676 ms -> 172 µs 3922x which puts the mod-τ product about 115x the classical Milnor product on the same inputs, rather than the ~500,000x the full `A_C` product costs. `test_mod_tau_matches_the_filtered_product` pins the equivalence to filtering `multiply_closed` by `tau_exponent == 0`, which is the whole licence for constraining the walk up front. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * motivic: trim the comments before merge The module doc was six lines restating what `multiply_closed` and `Monomial` already say; per CLAUDE.md it is one line and the facts move to the items. The conjugate generators are a fact about `Monomial`, and the Kong–Lin citation belongs with the theorem it implements. Also drop a test comment that restated its own degree bounds, so the two cannot drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: drop the basis-element string API `basis_element_from_string` existed so `.json` module descriptors could be written over the algebra, which is a concern of the layer above; nothing here called it, as its own test admitted. `MilnorAlgebra` already parses the same shape, so the mod-tau layer can take it from there rather than from a second parser kept alive by a round-trip test. `basis_element_to_string` took `(degree, idx)` to match a trait this type deliberately does not implement. It becomes `Display` on `Dual<Monomial>`, which is the type that actually has something to print. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F25ZVbsP7ULg41iY3MP6FX * motivic: fix a compute_basis race, and build the slack table only for mod-tau compute_basis read the basis length outside the write lock and then pushed, so two threads reaching an uncached degree together (fill_block runs the block walk in parallel) could both fill the same degrees. The vec ends up longer than it should be and basis[t] stops holding degree t, which then feeds wrong structure constants into every cached product above it. OnceVec::extend re-reads the length under the lock, which is what the classical algebra already uses. The added test fails against the previous code ("degree 11 misaligned after concurrent first use") and passes now. The negative-degree guard keeps the old no-op behaviour, since the loop bound tolerated a negative degree but `degree as usize` would not. Separately, row_slack is read only by the mod-tau prune, so the general product was allocating and filling (l + 1) * NB entries on every call and never reading them. It moves into row_slack_table, built only for that walk. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ePtYD7Bt4iPeCtmqtqvZE --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…r_product The motivic algebra engine landed on master with the Tau coefficient removed, so this tranche takes master's engine wholesale, drops the now dead tau.rs, and rewrites the A_C/tau view against the new API. A_C/tau is F_2[xi_i] tensor E(tau_i) — the odd-primary dual's shape with 2^i for p^i — so its product is the classical one at p = 2: the exterior commutation shifts by 2^k and the signs collapse over F_2. CTauAlgebra now multiplies through milnor_product (from the unmerged SpectralSequences#292, carried here) rather than filtering the engine's F_2[tau] product, so one algorithm stays under test instead of two. milnor_product takes its left factor first, commuting the right factor's exterior part past it; the engine's product_indexed orders its arguments the other way. The cross-check test pins this down: it asserts the two independent products — the classical machinery and the engine's Kong-Lin closed form — agree on the tau^0 part across every product up to total degree 5, and that some product really does drop a tau-divisible term. The engine also dropped its basis-element string API and its profiling counters, so the string round-trip moves here (inverting the Dual<Monomial> display) and the profile line loses its product counters. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ePtYD7Bt4iPeCtmqtqvZE
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Carve the motivic resolution layer out of the integration branch as the next tranche after the algebra engine (SpectralSequences#266). Adds CTauAlgebra, the A_C/tau view the ordinary resolution engine resolves, and MotivicResolution: resolve the trivial module over A_C/tau, then lift the differential to A_C by correcting along the weight grading. Includes the resolution cache and the resolve_motivic_ctau example. A_C/tau is F_2[xi_i] tensor E(tau_i) — the odd-primary dual's shape with 2^i for p^i — so its product is the classical one at p = 2: the exterior commutation shifts by 2^k and the signs collapse over F_2. It therefore multiplies through `milnor_product` (SpectralSequences#292) rather than reimplementing the walk, and a test cross-checks that against the engine's independent closed-form product, which is derived from Kong-Lin duality instead. Note that `milnor_product` takes its left factor first while the engine's `product_indexed` orders its arguments the other way; the two agree exactly under that transposition. Depends on SpectralSequences#292, which is not yet merged and so is included here. The Ext-side cohomology, the deformation spectral sequence, products and Massey products land in follow-ups. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ePtYD7Bt4iPeCtmqtqvZE
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Sep 1, 2026
Carve the motivic resolution layer out of the integration branch as the next tranche after the algebra engine (SpectralSequences#266, merged). Adds CTauAlgebra, the A_C/tau view the ordinary resolution engine resolves, and MotivicResolution: resolve the trivial module over A_C/tau, then lift the differential to A_C by correcting along the weight grading. Includes the resolution cache and the resolve_motivic_ctau example. A_C/tau is F_2[xi_i] tensor E(tau_i) — the odd-primary dual's shape with 2^i for p^i — so its product is the classical one at p = 2: the exterior commutation shifts by 2^k and the signs collapse over F_2. It therefore multiplies through `milnor_product` from the parent commit rather than reimplementing the walk, and a test cross-checks that against the engine's independent closed-form product, which comes from Kong-Lin duality instead. Note that `milnor_product` takes its left factor first while the engine's `product_indexed` orders its arguments the other way; the two agree exactly under that transposition. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ePtYD7Bt4iPeCtmqtqvZE
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This is the foundation layer of a larger effort to compute the C-motivic Adams E₂ page by deformation. The full work is being split into a stack of independently reviewable PRs; this one has no dependencies and touches only the
algebracrate.What it adds
motivic::tau— the coefficient ring F₂[τ] as a small homogeneous scalar (Tau). Everything in the motivic world is weight-homogeneous, so every structure constant is a single power of τ.Tauencodes that as a one-integer valuation (not a polynomial), and carries the whole τ-tower so it never has to be threaded through the resolution engine.motivic::milnor—MotivicMilnorAlgebra, i.e. A_C presented as a free F₂[τ]-module on the Milnor basis Q(E)P(R). The product is computed two independent ways:The fast path is validated exhaustively against the oracle over a range. This is deliberately not an
Algebraimpl — that trait is over F_p; this is the F₂[τ] engine the rest of the deformation builds on.What it deliberately does not do
Nothing here wires into the resolution engine. The mod-τ reduction A_C/τ (the connected finite-type F₂-algebra the engine actually resolves, giving the algebraic Novikov E₂) is a small
Algebraimpl layered on top of this engine in the next PR, so this one stays a self-contained, heavily-tested combinatorial core.Docs
MOTIVIC_GPU_HANDOFF.mddocuments the product engine's batching boundary for a future GPU port.Tests
rewrite_tauidentities, product associativity, weight-homogeneity (product weight − τ-power is additive), and closed-form-vs-duality agreement across a bidegree range.cargo test -p algebra --lib motivic— 22 passing.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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